Manny Pacquiao is speaking out against an opponent with an even longer reach than Floyd Mayweather Jr. In an interview with the National Conservative Examiner, the boxing champion -- who is also a politician in the Philippines -- criticized President Barack Obama's stance on same-sex marriage, going as far to evoke the Old Testament cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.

"God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other," Pacquiao told The Examiner. "It should not be of the same sex so as to adulterate the altar of matrimony, like in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah of Old."

These statements come several months after Sports Illustrated reported that Pacquiao had "publicly recommitted himself to Christianity" ahead of his upcoming fight with Timothy Bradley.